There’s no doubt that women’s healthcare has been seriously understudied and underfunded for far too long. Many of us have heard terms like uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts, but few of us — unless ...

Researchers examined risks for Black and white women with endometriosis and fibroids to understand how common medical interventions for those conditions modified the outcomes SEATTLE, WA — May 4, 2023 ...

No one wants to think that they might have cancer some day. And it’s not healthy to obsess about any one-off symptom you have (we’ve all felt bloated after a holiday meal or cocktail-filled brunch) ...

Ovarian cancer has long been one of the deadliest cancers to strike women. No tests are available to detect it early, so most patients are diagnosed in later stages, when the cancer is more likely to ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Q: I’m about two months pregnant, and my doctor just told me I have fibroids. Will this complicate the pregnancy? Should I be worried? A: Probably not. However, you — and your doctor — should be ...

Like a cancer, a fibroid arises from a single abnormal cell that multiplies and forms a tumor. In contrast to malignant tumors, however, fibroids rarely spread to other parts of the body but rather ...

"The first surprise was the precision and effectiveness of embolization on the possibility of devascularizing a large number of fibroids and the ability of the uterus to heal favorably as well as the ...

Uterine fibroids are a common benign gynecological condition affecting many women of reproductive age. However, not all cases ...

Nigeria has recorded another major milestone in advanced healthcare delivery as The Prostate Clinic, TPC, Lagos, yesterday carried out robotic surgery for women, performing what experts described as ...

SEATTLE, WA — May 4, 2023 — A new Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology investigated how endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas (also known as fibroids) and a common ...